When reality TV transforms a shy wallflower's life, love could be the most surprising makeover of all.Abbey's nightmare begins the moment she finds herself on the reality TV stage of Makeover Miracle, thanks to her well-meaning but mischievous friend, Jennifer. As if vomiting on live television wasn't enough, Abbey's guarded world crumbles with her uninviting appearance broadcast to every living room in Australia. But the greatest challenge lurks behind the scenes:...

In a battle of pastries and passion, a small-town café owner must outwit a corporate giant—or risk losing everything she loves.Clover Loveday is a tenacious café owner whose beloved Four-Leaf Clover has become both her livelihood and her refuge from a troubling financial storm. Just as her dreams start to materialize, a literal fall into the arms of the irresistibly charming Liam Sinclair threatens to complicate everything. Not only is Liam the embodiment of tempta...

An unexpected hero, a grieving widower, and a seaside town set the stage for love’s miraculous second chance.Elizabeth's life reads like a series of wrong turns, and her latest misstep feels like the biggest disaster yet. Fleeing her past, she lands in a charming seaside town, hoping to disappear into the chaos of a big city. Her plans derail completely when she saves a child from drowning, thrusting her into the path of James—a man whose world revolves around his ...

When street-smart meets political polish, sparks fly in a rags-to-riches tale of transformation, temptation, and true grit.Sally Foster's world flips when she's plucked from her gritty neighbourhood and thrust into the whirlwind world of disgraced politician Drake Wilson. With a chance to rewrite her destiny and a future for her family at stake, Sally embraces the daunting task of ridding her bogan ways. Yet, her biggest challenge isn’t the elocution lessons or the...

In the heart of the Victorian Alps, passion and danger collide as a photographer captures more than scenery—a mysterious stranger in her lens.Desperate to break free from her family's suffocating grasp, Eden escapes to the awe-inspiring high country of the Victorian Alps. Here, she indulges her passion for photography, eager to carve out a career from her creative eye. But her tranquil retreat shatters when her camera captures a forbidden moment—a captivating, nake...

In the breathtaking Victorian Dandenongs, passion blooms and secrets unravel as two worlds collide.Kate Moore has lived her life in the shadow of her family's wealth, groomed relentlessly to one day inherit the vast Moore’s Hotel Corporation. Her latest challenge is to rejuvenate the decaying Burnham Beeches estate in Sassafras, a true test of her abilities and a chance to earn her father's elusive approval. Enter David Wright, a gifted landscaper whose rugged char...

In the untamed heart of the Australian Outback, a filmmaker and a ranger confront both nature’s perils and the allure of unexpected attraction.Documentary filmmaker Dan Masters finds himself completely out of his depth amidst the harsh beauty of the Australian Outback. Enter Victoria Price, a fearless park ranger whose connection to the land is as fierce as her independence. When Victoria heroically rescues Dan from a crocodile during a preliminary shoot, she expec...

This collection examines early modern women’s contribution to the culturally central mode of complaint. Complaint has largely been understood as male-authored, yet, as this collection shows, early modern women used complaint across a surprising variety of forms from the early-Tudor period to the late-seventeenth century. They were some of the mode’s first writers, most influential patrons, and most innovative contributors. Together, these new essays illuminate early modern women’s particip...

The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 brings together new work by scholars across the globe, from some of the founding figures in early modern women's writing to those early in their careers and defining the field now. It investigates how and where women gained access to education, how they developed their literary voice through varied genres including poetry, drama, and letters, and how women cultivated domestic and technical forms of knowledge...

This collection of new essays is a comprehensive exploration of the theoretical and practical issues surrounding the editing of texts by early modern women. The chapters consider the latest developments in the field and address a wide range of topics, including the 'ideologies' of editing, genre and gender, feminism, editing for student or general readers, print publishing, and new and possible future developments in editing early modern writing, including digital publishing. The works of ...

This anthology brings together extensive selections of poetry by the five most prolific and prominent women poets of the English Civil War period: Anne Bradstreet, Hester Pulter, Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips and Lucy Hutchinson. It presents these poems in modern-spelling, clear-text versions for classroom use, and for ready comparison to mainstream editions of male poets’ work. The anthology reveals the diversity of women’s poetry in the mid-seventeenth century, across political a...

The millionaire's babyKate had learned certain lessons as Drake Daniels's lover:Lesson number one: the price of loving Drake was not to love him.Lesson number two: never give him what he expected.Discovering she was pregnant certainly fulfilled lesson number two. Drake had made it clear commitment and children were not on his menu. Now Kate must break her news. But when she sees Drake, passion kicks in, begging to be indulged again…j...